Plugging Holes In Van Roof

Might distort the roof though.

Plugging holes in van roof.

This patch installs easily with roofing nails and resists cracking and weakening in all temperature extremes. Removed the rubber plug and installed a rubber grommet in that hole. Hole is probably 1 4 or so. Do they have stainless metal screws that big.

1 for the roof cement. Sometimes after receiving a load of used tin if i had some tin smith work type solder bars i would solder the holes before using the tin with a propane handheld blow torch as i don t have any tin work soldering irons or lp gas bottle smith iron forge head. The quarrix smart plug roof patch provides a stronger easier and longer lasting way to cover holes in the roof. As others i have used silicon bathroom calk form a gasket or liquid nail to seal holes in reused tin.

Plastic plugs in the roof seem a little. These threaded holes are used to install roof rack and such. But if the shingles are going on top of the lag bolts i d remove them and fill the holes with some extra roof cement. And is the perfect solution when converting from static vents to ridge ventilation products.

As noted above the search capability on this forum is uhm challenging. Whether the holes were caused by vent removal storms or animal damage kwik plug efficiently solves the problem. Plugging the holes in my roof rack. The gibraltar building products kwik plug roof patch makes it quick and easy to repair holes in your roof up to 8 in.

Installs in seconds place it nail it done. How to plug antenna holes on the roof of a car i bought a 2003 ford crown victoria retired police car p71 that has a couple of holes on the roof that were used to mount the light bar and antennas. I did investigate hd and similar stores once for plastic plugs and did not see anything that looked close to suitable for waterproof hole plugging. I was thinking that crap that could get in through the big holes would plug up whatever the draining mechanism is.

Smaller nail holes will be permanently fixed by this method standard roofing nails would be either 3 8 inch or 1 2 inch making a hole. Fill small nail holes with silicone caulk or roof cement. Jump to latest follow 1 3 of 3 posts. Bmitch sep 3 12 at 21 59.

If you climb on your transit roof you won t find any of these threaded holes because they come with rubber plug and ford simply painted over them. Used an existing hole under the van into the pillar. Must be the silicone that worked for you then. So we have established that there are existing holes into the van both in the roof and underneath that are stopped with plastic rubber plugs.

So let s say you want to use the threaded hole you would have to remove the paint and the rubber plug.